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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Something Beautiful, Bits

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, Knowing

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Decision, Making Love

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

  John Green

  Loneliness, Waiting, Nervousness

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.295, A&C Black

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• I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.

  William T. Vollmann

  Real, Nice, Reading

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• Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for

  Maureen Dowd

  Deserve You, Way, Settling

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• Maybe I could do it." Darius shot him a dry look. "You want to try to get back into your house after the fact? Wellsie will stake you through the heart and leave you for the sun, my friend. Tohrment winced. "Good point" "And then she'll come looking for me." Both males shuttered.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, House, Brotherhood

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.22, Penguin

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• I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

  Haruki Murakami

  Men, Years, Long

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• Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Men, World

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• My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

  John Green

  Bored, Routine, Pleasant

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.23, A&C Black

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• First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.

  Stephen Fry

  First Love, Love Is, Giving

  "First Love Is Always Unrequited" by Stephen Fry, bigthink.com.

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• You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Names, Mouths

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• Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Payback, Lays

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• It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Affair, Empty

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• How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Half, Comfort, Motto

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• Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

  Charles M. Schulz

  Confused, Thinking, Too Much

  "Peanuts". Comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, www.gocomics.com. September 9, 1959.

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• Magnus wants to shout at me, don’t you, Magnus?” (Jace) “Yes,” Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275-

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Long, Enough

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• Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.

  Kathy Reichs

  Drug, Doe, Monkeys

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.26, Penguin

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• He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time.

  Michael Cunningham

  Art, Jobs, Thinking

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.12, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

  Michael Cunningham

  Men, Accepting, Streaks

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.115, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Fleeting, Cry, Moments

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• The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.

  Steven Pinker

  Rights, People, Desire

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Police, Gains, Nightmare

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.22, Penguin

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• Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore. "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Thinking, Ideas

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• Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

  Jim Carroll

  Kids, Light, Branches

  Jim Carroll (1978). “The Basketball Diaries: Age 12-15”

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